Crossword for Sun, 16/Mar/2008

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Across
1: Hightails it

5: Glass fragment

10: Ponder

14: Indian housemaid

15: Embankment down by the riverside

16: Spoken

17: State tree of Maine

18: Come to mind

19: Part of a violin

20: Butted in

22: Acorn droppers

23: On one's rocker?

24: Duct product

26: Applies lightly

29: Early manuscript versions

33: Band boxes?

37: Neatnik's nemesis

39: Eyelashes

40: Fortune

41: Circles of angels

43: It may zoom in or out

44: Isn't rash

46: Mukluk, e.g.

47: Slumps

48: Taste and smell

50: Goes downhill fast?

52: Firm head

54: Hit hard

59: WWW programming code

62: Kind of food canal

65: Family follower?

66: Ascended

67: Gumbo vegetable

68: Corn containers, in Cornwall

69: Finito

70: Woodwind requirement

71: Veggie vessels

72: Fender bender nicks

73: Budgets make them meet

Down
1: Azure gemstone

2: Ammonia compound

3: Skate's cousin

4: Part of a bedroom set

5: In a hasty, haphazard manner

6: Long lunch?

7: Dollar competitor

8: Put a counter to zero

9: Conveyed ownership

10: Disneyland transports

11: Ammonia compound

12: Give the ax to

13: Wapiti

21: Pinot Noir or Merlot

25: Eyebrow shape

27: Spill the beans

28: Flight school finals

30: Leaping insect

31: Crystal sound

32: Back talk

33: PC software

34: Eminem's '8 ___'

35: Course of action

36: Screwball

38: 'The Grapes of Wrath,' e.g.

42: Fixed payments, as for students

45: Birth certificate notation

49: Burned superficially

51: Japanese honorific

53: Subject of the biopic 'Sweet Dreams'

55: Warehouse

56: Captivated by

57: Proved to be human

58: Twosomes

59: URL opener

60: Group of three

61: Sew up

63: High spd. phone line

64: Bump into





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